• Media usage
  
• Media Literacy
• VideoBlogs
• Collective documentaries
• VideoWiki with SMIL
• Demonstrating a prototype
• Further research & development
  
  
  

« An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine... »

William Gibson about Pattern Recognition

Media Usage > 

• Television viewing is declining more than any other traditional media.
  
  
• Still people use television far more than any other medium.
  
  
• Computers make an increasing number of consumers able to record, compile, edit, create and share audio-visual content.
  
  
  
• “Video” will probably continue to be the most used medium, but it is not necessarily going to be broadcasted.
  
  
• Knowing the “grammar” of audiovisual media and how they interact is arguably going to remain the most important part of “media literacy”.

Media Literacy > 

• The ability to access, analyze, evaluate and communicate information
  
  
• knowing the way different media works
• how content is produced
• how it is delivered
  
• and how people access it
  
  
  
• To become “media literate” we need usable tools for everyone

The Potential > 

• Textual weblogs are already popular among adolescents.
  
  
• A major part of young bloggers seems to be girls.
  
  
• Mobile technology - an oportunity to make users become producers
  
  
  

Videoblogs > 

• “Vogs”
  
• A vog uses performative video and/or audio.
  
• A vog is personal.
  
• A vog lies between writing and the televisual.
  
• A vog explores the proximate distance of words and moving media.
  
• A vog is a video blog where
  video in a blog must be more than video in a blog.
  
  Adrian Miles   
  
  
  
• “Moblogs”
• emerged with the introduction of mobile devices with internet connection
• not specificly related to videoblogging
• technology similar to textual blogs
• often hosted by professional service providers
  
• containing individual videoclips, not sequences.

“Collective Documentaries” > 

• “Compilation film”
• Archived material
• Citiation of published material
  
  Blogging has always been about compilation
  
  
• “Found footage”
• Material found “by accident”
  
  Videoblogs promise to foster this process
  
  
  
• “Collective documentary”
• moments in life captured by the presence of cameras
• put together by collective effort
• re-edited
  

The blog meets the “wiki” > 

An approach to videoblogs focusing on the simplicity of moblogs combined with collective editing capabilities inspired by wikis.

• The “post-production” process can be separated into five stages :
  
  
1. “Posting”
2. “Selecting”
3. “Editing”
4. “Storing”
5. “Re-editing”
   
   
   
• Using QuickTime and SMIL - “Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language”

1. Posting > 

• Ordinary blog features :
  
  
• Uploading videofiles
  
  
• Presenting posts in reverse chronological order
• one by one
  
  
• Blogroll ( “Videoroll” )
• limited to users within the system
  
  
• Commenting
  
  
• Trackbacks
  
  
• Blog interface

2. Selecting > 

New media objects are usually constructed on the basis of ready-made parts.

- Authentic creation is replaced by selection.

Lev Manovich

• Editing begins with selecting and it should always be as close to browsing as possible.
  • Citation
    
    
• Search interface

3. Editing > 

• Editing interface
  

4. Storing > 

• SMIL-documents are used to describe
  
• a “display area”
• one or several regions used for positioning
• sequencing
• duration
• possibly additional text etc
  
  
• Openness and simplicity are the “wiki-like” features of the system.
  
  
• The users can manipulate order and duration and store multiple versions without affecting the original videoclips.
  
  
• SMIL document
  

5. Re-editing > 

• Simply a matter of making a new SMIL-document

“Everyone who has had a piece of film to be edited knows by experience how neutral it remains, even though a part of a planned sequence... ”

Sergei Eisenstein

• New ways of editing
• i. e. “contrapuntal editing”

Future R&D > 

No videoblog is going to attract millions of viewers each day.

But a million videoblogs ....

• Research
• Spatial and temporal media
• Interactive possibilities
• Dynamic linking >>
  
  
• Development
  
• Server- vs client-side
  
• Scalability
• Ratingsystem
• P2P distribution
  
  
• Legal aspects
• Citation
• Deep linking